Luis Palma was left out yet again yesterday. It’s now looking ominous for the Honduran international winger…
Luis Palma on Saturday was left out of the Celtic match-day squad for a third consecutive premiership match, leaving supporters to reach the conclusion that the the Honduran’s time at the club is drawing to a close.
It can’t be a coincidence, Luis is not injured as he’s been playing for Honduras recently, so it looks like he has fallen down the pecking order at Celtic with Brendan obviously preferring his four wingers of Kuhn, Maeda, Forrest and Yang. That leaves no room for a fifth winger in the squad and Palma will have to work hard to impress his manager or await an injury to perhaps open the door for him.
Luis doesn’t help himself either by uploading social media posts when the side are playing, and that attitude has angered some supporters, as well as the manager.
It’s a shame really as Luis Palma quite clearly has the talent to succeed at the club as he’s shown on more than a few occasions, but you can have all the ability in the world, but if your attitude isn’t right, then you won’t get far with an elite coach like Brendan Rodgers and a top club like Celtic.
It looks increasingly likely that a January move for Luis Palma is on the cards, either a loan or permanent deal if something can be arranged.
The Celtic squad has adapted brilliantly to how Brendan wants to team to play but there has obviously bene some players that have moved on because they aren;t suited to the manager’s plans. That is football.
I think in this instance, it’s a move that will suit both parties as Luis Palma is clearly a talent. Playing as a winger and doing his part in the press is something that he has not been close to achieving. The dirty side of the game, the tracking back and the defending from the front. Kuhn and Maeda do it brilliantly, the latter being world class in that aspect of his game, but it’s more about the talent and the flair for Palma as he knows that he’s got both.
In the modern game it’s nowhere near enough.
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When you take into account how Rodgers has set up his 7 attacking options?
There’s only room for 6 within a 20man SPFL match day squad.
So Palma possibly won’t be in contention for a squad place, unless an injury, should occur to any of the 6 attacking options at present?
On the bigger picture, can’t see Palma getting back into Rodgers plans now?
Yet we still possibly need another wide option to be added in January, to replace Palma, if there should be another left sided wide player available?
It takes time for the player’s within our price bracket to get up to speed with the demands of Rodgers, so January would be ideal to get a potential replacement into the club imo?
Looking like any incoming players coming in during January, could be more for next season in mind?
Especially when there isn’t much room available within our current 20man SPFL match day squad at present, if any room at all?
Another pleasing factor is that our current 20man SPFL squad contains 5 homegrown quota players also, so not to many places available for our overall 25man squad required for CL football either at present?
Course that will change before the start of next season, but shouldn’t be to the degree that it has been over the past number of summers, and January might even reduce that for ourselves also?